MQ System Administrator

Role: MQ System Administrator

Location: Brussels

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 6 months+

Rate: Circa €500/day all in

Languages: English AND Dutch/French

Next Ventures are currently recruiting for an MQ System Administrator to join a leading financial client in Brussels on a long-term contract. You must be a passport holder, and fluent in either French or Dutch.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND MAIN TASKS:

- Administration of the existing infra (manage Servers, queues managers)
- Create queue managers and queues
- Prepare, document, plan, organizes, execute, and validate changes
- Contribute to projects for the MQ part
- Follow-up incidents and participate to root cause analysis
- Participate to support of the infrastructure
- Analyse possibilities to automates activities, propose solutions and implement it

MANDATORY EXPERIENCE:

- A minimum of 3 years in MQ Administration
- Broad knowledge of IBM MQ (up to v7.5 minimum)
- Knowledge of MQ server and client setup and management
- Knowledge and experience of automation and Scripting in MQ environments
- Discuss with the internal client all along the projects life cycle
- Set up, monitor, report and review SLA's with responsible maintenance departments
- Ensure a good working relationship is established with all necessary support organizations both internal and external
- Coordinates the escalations when the projects are in production

NICE TO HAVE:

- Recent successful proven experience(s) in similar/comparable environment
- Knowledge of MQ v8
- Knowledge and experience with high availability environments
- Knowledge of IIB (IBM Integration Bus, previously called WMB: at least v7, preferably v9)

For immediate consideration, please send your updated CV to (see below)